Allaire Village
Allaire was the home of Howell Ironworks from the early to mid 1800’s. Once it was realized coal from Pennsylvania was more practical than bog iron, Allaire, along with other bog iron towns in central & southern NJ, eventually became a ghost town. Most of the buildings still...
Whitesbog Village
Whitesbog was founded around 1870 and produced a blueberries & cranberries well into the 20th century. The town is surprisingly well-preserved. The general store even has an old soda machine in front of it. We did manage to find some remains of a building in the woods. And...
Palace Depression
For those of you who don’t already know what the Palace Depression is, Roadside America has some nice writeups. I heard about the reconstruction of the Palace a few years ago. I was a bit disappointed to see not much has been done yet. Looks like they just...
Concrete Shipwreck S.S. Atlantus
I was a bit disappointed. There’s not much of it left above water. The ship, S.S. Atlantus, was an experiment from WWI. After a few trips across the Atlantic to bring soldiers back home, the concrete ship proved to be near-useless (it was concrete, afterall). The ship was...
Circus Drive-In
From the roadside, the place looks rather boring…..just an old movie screen. But once we started walking around, I realized it was pretty interesting….the driveways are still there (in some form), as are most of the speaker hook-ups. Plus you don’t truly appreciate the size of the screen...
Old House Near Ocean County College
A coworker told me about this place about a month ago. He said the ruins of a house were in the woods not far from Ocean County College. There are no roads that lead to it…just trails. It took me 2 times to find the place. It reminded...
Clinton Road
Clinton Road sucks. Basically, it’s a road with an old furnace (which has been called such ridiculous things as a Druid Pyramid), a bridge with some stories tied to it, and a hairpin turn of doom. Black pickups (I’m assuming the same black pickups that are condemned to...
